We are looking for a thought leader and influencer who can take our clients' eCommerce solution and look at it holistically, drive efficient functionality implementation and performance gains (site speed and stability). Our clients’ goal over the last year was to phase in a different approach to eCommerce that emphasized communities and social networking. We basically went back and helped them build a completely new information architecture as a way to take their online experience to the next level. What was once a fragmented eCommerce site built for processing transactions is now being geared towards getting the customers all the information they need in a format they want. If the customer knows what they’re looking for they can now access it and feel as if the site (standard and mobile) is now a good way to do that.
They are also using more targeted search, affiliate and e-mail marketing to enhance their online brand with more online community features. In the past four years the number of active shoppers who have made at least one online purchase annually on their website has risen by 175% while the number of monthly unique visitors increased over 130% in the same time period. That being said, this web site was built on the back of their brick & mortar business. Going forward they don’t just want to be focused on the ‘buy’ part of the shopping cycle, but also on what their customers want to learn. Additionally they are using more targeted search, affiliate and e-mail marketing to enhance the brand with more online community features.
This role will interact closely with various technical leads and project managers and will be looked upon as a technical authority on this portion of the platform. You will identify and prioritize requirements to design new features, improve existing product functionality and to improve performance. Must have a passion for deploying elegant business oriented architecture solutions that can be easily implemented but scale well and unlock business value. We need our Architect to be a business oriented thinker that looks to innovate for business value in the course of normal implementation.
You will be responsible for:
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Providing inspirational and passionate technical leadership throughout the life-cycle of eCommerce application development projects
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Solution architecting, design, development and roll out of ATG based ecommerce solutions
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Performance Tuning of ATG Applications
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Implement integrations of the core eCommerce platform to the third party integrations identified
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Evaluate and anticipate the impact of technical solutions on related projects
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Evaluate projects and drive outcomes based on the impact of hardware or software upgrades on new and existing applications
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Understand interrelationships and the impact of systems and applications upon the enterprise wide technical environment
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Have the ability to really push the envelope and get the most out of the technology at hand.
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Develop and maintain application architecture standards, policies and procedures
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Work with business user teams to discuss, recommend, explain, and reconcile desired functionality and technology capabilities.
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Create and contribute to a team culture of innovation, performance and quality
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Ability to think strategically and drive development strategies and tactics that produce faster turn around on features and also world class performance
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Design for high performance and scalability in order to ensure that the application is highly scalable and can support high volumes of traffic
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Help diagnose and resolve escalated production performance and stability issues.
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Contribute to deployment strategies with deployment engineers
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Mentor the e-commerce IT organization in understanding and adherence to architecture design standards and guidelines. Promote knowledge sharing within the technical communities.
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Work with QA team to set the load testing standards and participate in load testing to find performance bottlenecks as needed in the e-commerce application releases.
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Collaborate with DBAs, Network and Server administrators to ensure the system infrastructure is fully aligned with application needs.
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Advise eCommerce IT senior level managers and executives to provide technical expertise, and project direction.
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Identify, evaluate and conduct proof-of-concepts for new technologies and lead development of core architectural components.
What's Required:
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Multiple years of experience in online or ecommerce technology, participating in Java software development and software architecture
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Seasoned ATG expertise (Commerce, Merchandising,Content Management, Commerce Service Center) , not just experience or exposure
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Experience architecting high traffic, high scalability, high availability and eCommerce websites or other Internet transactional applications
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Experience with end-to-end application performance tuning, including back-end database layer, ATG, application server/web server layer and UI layer
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Experience working with distributed teams including offshore resources
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Experience in other technical areas such as networks, capacity planning, security, and integration preferred.
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Experience in the following technologies: Struts, Spring, Hibernate, etc. and J2EE technologies like JSP, Servlets, JMS, JMX, JDBC, JBoss, Websphere, Weblogic, Apache
If interested, please contact us at info@ips-beintegral.com. Relocation is available, though they won't buy your house... |
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